2007 Cannes Film Festival

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The 2007 Cannes Film Festival, also known as the 60th Annual Cannes Film Festival, ran from May 16 to 27, 2007. Wong Kar Wai's My Blueberry Nights opened the festival, and Denys Arcand's The Age of Ignorance closed (Wong was the 2006 Cannes Film Festival's Jury president). The President of the Official Jury was British director Stephen Frears.

Contents

[edit] Feature film competition

[edit] Festival line-up

Opener

Closer

[edit] Films in competition

[edit] Out of competition gala screenings

[edit] Midnight screenings

[edit] Un certain regard

[edit] Special screenings

[edit] 60th anniversary tributes

[edit] Cannes Classics — Documentaries on Cinema

[edit] Competition shorts

[edit] Juries

[edit] International competition

[edit] Un certain regard

[edit] Camera d'or

[edit] Cinefoundation and short films

[edit] Additional film programs

[edit] Tous Les Cinemas du Monde

Tous Les Cinemas du Monde (World Cinema) began in 2005 to showcase films from a variety of different countries. From 19 May to 25 May 2007, films were screened from India, Lebanon, Poland, Kenya, Guinea, Angola, Slovenia, and Colombia.[1]

[edit] India

The first two days of this program were devoted entirely to the cinema of India and included films in a number of different languages. The Hindi film, Lage Raho Munna Bhai, which screened on May 19 (with Bollywood superstar, Sanjay Dutt, as a Mumbai underworld don, who begins to see the spirit of Mahatma Gandhi), was particularly well received.[2][3] In addition, a Maniratnam film, Guru, (starring Abhishek Bachchan, Madhavan and Aishwarya Rai and loosely based on the life of Dhirubhai Ambani; Bachchan also made a cameo appearance in Lage Raho Munna Bhai) was also a "critical success".[4]Other films included the Hindi film Dharm, the Malayalam film Saira, Missed Call, the Tamil film Veyil, and the Bengali film Dosar.[5]Another Tamil language Indian film, Mozhi was shown in the non-prize category at a later date.

[edit] Lebanon

Debuting at the Director's Fortnight was Nadine Labaki's Caramel, a charming dramedy about five women who gather at a beauty salon and deal with their everday problems with men, social expectation, sexuality, and tradition vs. modernizing times. Labaki not only directed and co-wrote the film but plays the lead as well. The rest of the cast is composed mostly of unprofessional actors, all of whom deliver very convincing performances and add a lot of color and depth to the film. Reminiscent of an Almodovar picture, Caramel is unique not just for its technical and creative sophistication but also for not tackling any of the religious, political, or war-related issues that have continued to plague its setting, Lebanon, til now. The film proved to be a sleeper at the festival and was distributed in well over 40 countries, becoming an international hit.

[edit] Winners

[edit] Footnotes

  1. ^ "Tous Les Cinemas Du Monde", festival-cannes.com, Cannes. Retrieved on 2007-05-16. 
  2. ^ Masand, Rajeev (2007-05-20). "Lage Raho ... is hot at Cannes", ibnlive.com, CNN. Retrieved on 2007-05-20. 
  3. ^ Adarsh, Taran (2007-05-22). "'Lage Raho Munnabhai' stuns Cannes", indiafm.com, IndiaFM. Retrieved on 2007-05-22. 
  4. ^ Sinanan, Anil (2007-05-24). "The Sun Rises on the East", timesonline.co.uk, The Times. Retrieved on 2007-05-24. 
  5. ^ Sinanan, Anil (2007-05-24). "The Sun Rises on the East", timesonline.co.uk, The Times. Retrieved on 2007-05-24. 

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